ground-state

ground-state is a skill for Claude Code from griffinwork40/agent-afk. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,875 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only setup check for a coding task. It reviews the repository, its tools, recent changes, and saved notes before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect project state, infrastructure, Git history, and prior-session memory, then prepare a verified brief for later coding steps.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of starting with missing context or making changes based on outdated assumptions. It also keeps reconnaissance separate from actual edits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the awa-bundled plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/griffinwork40/agent-afk/ground-state
Any agent
npx skills add griffinwork40/agent-afk --skill ground-state
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/griffinwork40/agent-afk

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awa-bundled, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ground-state

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/griffinwork40/agent-afk/ground-state.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/griffinwork40/agent-afk/ground-state)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/griffinwork40/agent-afk/ground-state"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/griffinwork40/agent-afk/ground-state.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,875 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00075 $0.01875
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00937
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00187

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5c924f6a685e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ground-state scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

src/bundled-plugins/awa-bundled/skills/ground-state/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sub-agent contract

/contract

Constraint: read-only reconnaissance. You MUST NOT call edit_file, write_file, or any mutating bash command (no git commit, git push, git checkout, mv, rm, file redirection, package installs, etc.). Read-only tools only: read_file, grep, glob, list_directory, memory_search, and read-only bash (git status, git log, git diff, cat, ls, find, etc.). memory_search is non-mutating and is the only way to reach the cross-session fact archive — it is in scope for this skill, do not strip it from this list.

If the survey reveals a fix that's tempting to apply, return it as a recommendation in the snapshot — the orchestrator decides whether to act. Even if the invoking brief sounds prescriptive ("draft the edit", "apply the change"), this skill stops at the snapshot and the preamble artifact. The orchestrator dispatches a separate implementation step afterward.

Inline reconnaissance

Run the three surveys below directly using your own tools. Do NOT dispatch any sub-agents via the agent or skill tools — every lookup in this phase is a deterministic read that you execute yourself using bash, glob, read_file, grep, list_directory, and memory_search. Issue all three surveys in a single batched tool-use round where possible.

State survey (bash)

Issue these commands (combine into one or two bash calls):

  • git symbolic-ref --short HEAD — current branch
  • git rev-parse HEAD — HEAD SHA
  • git status -s — uncommitted changes
  • git log --oneline -5 — recent commit history
  • git stash list — stash state
  • git rev-list --left-right --count HEAD...@{upstream} 2>/dev/null — upstream divergence

Adapt what you surface to the domain:

Domain What to flag
software Branch, recent commits, uncommitted changes, stash, upstream divergence. Flag: diverged, uncommitted, stale.
research Version-controlled artifact state, current phase, publication target/deadline if discoverable.
design Design system version, component library state, current phase, recent file changes.
business Financial model freshness, market data recency, current project phase.
(other) Recent changes, current project phase, any state that could cause conflicts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 107 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 5c924f6a685e

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ground-state is a skill published in the GitHub repository griffinwork40/agent-afk (54 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,875 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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